The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-05
or GENERAL INTEREST.

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: asked a woman if she would give him
, dinner She told him it wasn't he
, Inner hour, but she could give him {
, substantial lunch. II don't want /;
lunch, l want a dinner" replied thu
I high-toned beggar, and he walked off
The wild-eyed, long-haired, SOM
brero-topped men SO numerous in Oms
ha nowadays are not cowboys mol
army scouts nor Indian-slayers-unlcs.
the lowly rcd-man purchases thei1
wares. They are patent-medicine ia
kcrs from the Indianless East. Omaha
Chronicle.
"A little Burlington girl who dis
likes arithmetic was asked to give the
sum of nine cows and seven cows.
.Fifteen," she replied, When in
formed that this was wrong, she petu.
lantly exclaimed: "It doesn't make
any difference if we only get the milk. ~
--BWlington Free Press.
Mrs. Elisha Merritt, of Gainesville,
Ga, who is now over eighty years old,
has an iron pot which has been in the
possession of the family for many gen.
erations. 1t was brought from Hol.
land long before the revolutionary war,
and had been in the family for several
generations before that. Family ira.
dition makes its age at least three hun.
dred years.
"A New York State Judge who had
kissing case before him said: "There
is no objection, so far as l can see, to a
man kissing girl if she be willing.
But you must not do it against her will.
She has a right to object, and if she
does you mustn't do it. Be sure she is
willing before you try" If she object,
then take some girl who won't. Oma-
la World.
Friend Ito patent medicine manu-
facturer)-"How is your great 'cure.
all remedy taking, old man?' Manu-
facturer - Immensely. I've made
enough out of it in the last three
months to warrant trip to Europe"
Friend-"Going for pleasure, sup
pose" Manufacturer-"No. I'm 60
ing for. my health. "-Drake's 1ravel-
erS' Magazine.
"A Hartford Conn., man sent his
boy into the country equipped with a
woodchuck trap and other appliances
for enjoying his vacation, and told him
to have good time and be sure to 60
to church on Sundays. The first letter
he received from the boy said: "Dear
papa, I've caught woodchuck. Itwas
a skunk. I did not 60 to church. Yours
affcctionately."
"A lady writes the Nantucket
(Mass.) journal that many years ago
small army of tiny red ants took pos
session OF her store closet and remained
until cool weather. Every year they
returned. She was advised to try tar,
which she did, placing u large chunk
on a dish in corner of the shelf. The
ants left, and have never returned.
The same piece of tar has stood in the
same place for fifteen years.
An old mailing table in the Ogdens-
burg IN. W post-office was torn to
pieces recently, and between the lin
ings and the outside Of the shutes lead
ing to the bags were found sixty-seven
letters that had slipped through cracks
IN the table. Some of the letters bore
postmark dates showing that they were
mailed in 1873, and one contained
foreign money order that the Post-office
Department made good several years
ago.
"A man who was wanted on some
criminal charge in Dakota town rs-
Gently disguised himself in a woman's
dress and bonnet and tried to drive out
OF town in carriage, but was arrested
before he had gore half mile. The
detective happened to see the carriage
go past and was convinced the driver
""' '''' ." "UiEut ssS ouUll as ZIG uOLlC6u
that he didn't drive twice as fast up
hill as on the level or say 'whoa"
twice after the horse stopped.
"A man at Prague, Bohemia. swal.
lowed q small watch with chain at
tached, which joker had slipped into
4 glass of beer while the mans back
was turned. The metal. dissolved by
the acids Of the stomach, has poisoned
that organ and keeps 1t in an incessant
state of fever, making him unable to
retain food. The man has been dis
missed from the Munich hospital as in
durable, and now lies in hospital at
Prague. kept alive by food arti6cially
injected. waiting to see whether the |
watch will all dissolve or he will die |
first.
There are now cables on almost
every sea and ocean bed, the total |
length of wire laid being nearly 49,
300 nautical miles. There are nine
cables connecting Europe with Ameri.
"a. the first that was laid dating from
1868. SO great, also, has the advance